A journalist turns to politics: Umesh Pandey's Indian dream in Thailand

His party may look doomed, but Pandey will eventually get back on that campaign bus

The former Bangkok Post editor turned opposition candidate talks to Rahul Jacob about his party’s controversial nomination of a member of the royal family as a candidate to be PM

The evening before our breakfast on Monday, Umesh Pandey, the Thai Indian journalist turned first-time parliamentary candidate asks to speak to me. The party he is a member of, Thai Raksa Chart, might soon be disqualified; Will Business Standard still want an interview? Everyone I have met in Bangkok on the weekend is talking about little else. Indeed, the first election in Thailand since the military coup in 2014 has been